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Protein powders are an easy way to increase your overall protein intake. While it’s important to get the majority of protein through natural sources like chicken, fish, beef, eggs, yogurt and nuts and legumes, protein powder can be added to shakes, smoothies, oatmeal and even in healthier baked goods to give you a boost. Since[…]

I’m actually late here, since #NationalEatingDisorderAwarenessWeek ended Sunday, but it took me some extra time to find the words, and get the balls to share. Last year, I broke my silence on my own struggle with orthorexia and Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea (the Female Athlete Triad). My post got 3,000 views in the first three days,[…]

Recently, I made a list of every time I had ever been successful in weight loss. I made the list beginning when I had my first big change in deciding to get fit at 14 (which, at 28, was half my life ago and that feels ironic to me) to now. I listed any time[…]

Vanity gets you on the elliptical. Glory gets you across a finish line. This weekend, my obstacle course racing trainees scaled walls, ran through ankle-deep mud, crawled under barbed wire and jumped over fire to call themselves Spartan Race Finishers. The Spartan Race Sprint is a three to five mile terrain race dotted with 20[…]

“I know what to do, I just don’t do it.” I think I hear this in the gym at least a hundred times a year. The statement itself is usually a big joke, because when actually ask the person “what they know,” it’s usually old information that involves whole grains and a calories-in, calories out[…]

Tell people you are going running in a snowstorm and they might think you’re crazy. “You could get hit by a car sliding out of control, or run over by a plow!” “You could slip and hit your head or break an ankle, and you’ll be lying there unconscious and we’ll never find you!” “The[…]

A wise man once said, don’t half-ass anything – always use your full ass. Then a fit chick agreed, and used that full ass for three sets of ten squats. You aren’t writing anything down. Of all the reasons, real and excusatory, that keep us from adhering to our fitness and nutrition plan, there are[…]

Friends are good for getting you out of blind dates, showing up at your house with movies and takeout, house-sitting your dog and maybe convincing you to compromise your moral conduct for the sake of a good time. The best ones will love you until the end of time. They would lay their life down,[…]

I once heard someone say that is brave to believe in magic. It’s something I remember as we step into a brand new year and I see brand-new faces cross the gym lobby, eager with a renewed faith to make a big change in their lives. And if you’ve been around the fitness block for[…]

It’s everywhere right now: in your home, at work, on sale at the store. People just KEEP GIVING IT to you. And you want to stop – you really, really do – but it feels impossible. I’m talking about SUGAR. In the days leading up to and following a holiday known for making sugar plums[…]